My growing tech horizon

GSoC

I have been selected for the Google Summer of code program under Kalzium under the molecular calculator project. Yippeeeee!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 :D. I have started doing some ground work for the molecular calculator project. I have started designing the user-interface for the same. There was a user-interface for the Kstars calculator. It was really user friendly and cool. The same kind of interface could work out even in Kalzium. I have created a basic interface using the Qt designer. I have taken some screen shots of the same. Please comment. The calculator as of now looks kind of primitive, and I haven’t completed it yet. It will look great once completed. Please shower me with suggestions.

The above is the Calculator in Kstars.

There are tabs on the left which you can choose, on the right, you do the calculations.
The above software is kstars. The desktop planetorium of KDE.

The following are the screen shots of the molecular calculator interface design that I have tried to come up with for Kalzium.

The above is the layout of the molecular calculator, I plan to create. It has different tabs for different calculations.

After filling it up, it will look like the picture above. This is the introduction page. There are other tabs which include

Molecular mass calculator

Concentration calculator

Nuclear calculator

Gas densities

Equation Balancer

Scientific calculator

The picture you see below is the Concentration calculator, where the user enters the amount of substance along with the units and quantity ( which by default are according to the configurations.) The result is printed at the bottom.

The concentration calculator has 2 other parts which calculate the amount of solute and the amount of solvent respectively.

You can see the molecular calculator below. It has two parts, the molecular mass calculator and the molecule predictor.
The user can select the molecules from the list of commonly used compounds / history or he can enter the molecule in the text area. There is also a prediction for the molecule that pops out once the user starts typing the molecule. There is also a table of short-forms for compounds like amino acids. sugars, etc.
The molecule predictor will take in the molecular mass, some of the elements present in the molecule and predict all possible molecular formulae for the molecule.

Bottom: You can see the display of results, composition and other data.

Please give my regards to Carsten, feel welcome at #cdk for general chemistry chatting on IRC (though strictly speaking it’s around the CDK, but there are other non-cdk opensource chemistry developers hanging out there anyway), and make sure to ask Carsten to talk to you about the Blue Obelisk! 🙂